I was just off out for lunch when I saw this mega post by Damien Dinning on Nokia Conversations detailing virtually every decision behind the N8 (from the frequently asked questions) in a 34 part question, including some photogrpahy tips from Damien. (Thanks again for the heads up marc!)

Some interesting points again, won’t discuss them all as I have to go but:

On the video front, 30FPS 720p maybe coming soon, “We will be looking for opportunities to further improve the video performance in later software updates. Canâ€™t say anymore than that at this stage”

No RAW images – (most digicams don’t do this anyway as most point and shoot photographers will not know what to do with these images.)

On the missing LED, “Current generation single LEDs provide little more than a tick box on a spec sheet”. IMO the Xenon far outweighs the benefits of having LED or Dual LED for video. For still photography, now, LED flash is an utter joke. only xenon will do if you want low light photos of subjects within 2-3m (especially if they’re people which with xenon with firing duration of 1/200,000 of a second will freeze any action). There is a LED for autofocus, like N82.

Mentioned before – investigating possibility of continuous autofocus in video

N8 has video stabilization.

Why 12MP as opposed to 8MP or 5MP. Going forward on performance (e.g. with bigger sensor), not just pixel number. It was never nokia’s intention to lead in megapixel number – they’ve consistently adopted getting larger pixels e.g. N86.Â Damien’s listed the advantages of this (in Q5). GTG

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